This Piedmont home was listed for the first time since it was built in 1977 and sold for $1.705 million.

This Piedmont home was listed for the first time since it was built in 1977 and sold for $1.705 million.

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The entry

The entry

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The sunken living room

The sunken living room

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Stairs from the dining room to the bedrooms

Stairs from the dining room to the bedrooms

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The dining room takes advantage of the views.

The dining room takes advantage of the views.

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The kitchen

The kitchen

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Views from the kitchen

Views from the kitchen

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Eat-in area off the kitchen

Eat-in area off the kitchen

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Views from the table

Views from the table

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Views from the deck

Views from the deck

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Wood-burning fireplace

Wood-burning fireplace

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One of four bedrooms

One of four bedrooms

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Soaker tub

Soaker tub

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Another bedroom, with loft

Another bedroom, with loft

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Den

Den

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Another bedroom

Another bedroom

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Office

Office

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Another bedroom

Another bedroom

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Flat lot

Flat lot

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A view of the home from the back

A view of the home from the back

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Views from every room

Views from every room

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What median prices get you in Piedmont and Oakland

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Last week, SFGate ran a piece on what it costs to buy a home around the Bay Area. While Oakland is still bargain-priced for the East Bay overall—at a median price of 555K for a two-plus-bedroom home versus 875K in Berkeley, 760K in Alameda and 700K in El Cerrito—Rockridge comes in at almost twice that overall median at $1.02 million. Piedmont is even higher at $1.7 million—that’s higher than the median in Burlingame ($1.6 million), Larkspur ($1.43 million) and Mill Valley ($1.38 million).

The home in the gallery above is a good example of what you get for that median price. 16 Abbott Way was built in 1977 and owned by the same family ever since. It came to the market for the first time on May 1 at $1.428 million and sold for $1.705 million in mid-June, despite (or perhaps because of?) its original 1970s features: a stone-fronted fireplace, tile counter tops and lots and lots of wood-paneled walls. The view home has 4-plus bedrooms and 3.5 baths in almost 3,500 square feet and backs onto a large, level lot.

For examples of what you get for the median in Rockridge and Oakland at large, check out the galleries below. The first is a 1911 bungalow in Rockridge that sold for $1.07 million—or $833 a square foot for the two-bedroom, one-bath—in June.

The second is a 1900 “modernized” (or stripped, depending how you feel on the subject) Victorian on the Fruitvale-Laurel border that was sold as a short sale for 290K in November 2013, flipped and resold for the overall Oakland median of 550K in August.